I wonder what percentage of people just do what a cop tells them, even when the cop is clearly wrong like in this situation. Thank God the guy had a video camera going.

We need people to start standing up to these power-tripping, tinpot tyrants.

Cop-worshipers often acknowledge that there are a few bad cops, just like there are a few bad doctors, construction workers, car salesmen, barbers, etc. I’ve never thought to ask what percentage they would admit are bad apples, but I’m going to guess they’d admit 1% of cops are bad.

That would mean that potentially 1% of citizen contacts could be bad. But even then, it’s not like that 1 cop in 100 goes through his day having only bad interactions. A bad cop can give a lot of unjust, illegal orders, and if people just do what he says, he gets his power trip, and nothing ever comes of that interaction. I would guess that happens a lot, and a bad cop could go a long time without really running into someone that causes him to flip out and show his true colors.

Let’s say a bad cop has one bad interaction every 2 years, meaning a lawsuit against him is filed or he gets some sort of reprimand in his file. Let’s say the average cop has 2 citizen contacts per day (to be conservative). There are 250 working days per year (52 weeks per year minus two weeks vacation). That would be 250 x 2 interactions per year, or 500. We’re assuming he can go two years without an incident, which would be  1 incident every 1000 contacts (as an estimate).

Working as a pair, it would only be 1 in 10,000 pairs of cops that are bad (.01²). Let’s assume a pair of cops still averages 2 citizen contacts per day. Out of these 10,000 pairs of cops, there is one bad pair. These 10,000 pairs have 2 contacts per day and work 250 days per year. They’re having 5 million contacts per year. And the bad pair still has an incident once every 2 years. So that means, 1 in 10 million contacts with bad pairs would have an issue arise.

This video says there are 53 million citizen contacts per year in this country. That means there ought to be about 5.3 issues per year with bad pairs of cops.

I realize I’ve made a lot of estimates and assumptions, but the problem is that I’ve posted many, many videos on this blog of bad pairs of cops, bad trios and more. Here are a couple more.

This guy was just videotaping, and 3 cops beat him, pepper sprayed him and tried to smash his phone. He’s suing them, and named them in the lawsuit. The odds of having 3 bad cops teamed up would be 1 in a million (.01³). That’s not even considering all the other cops that were present who didn’t lift a finger.

The guy in the video below was clearly not being confrontational, yet ended up having to be taken to the hospital, because a psycho nutjob cop came along. If this one guy was in the bottom 1% of cops and all the rest are good, why didn’t they stop this guy from abusing the citizen? There were at least two additional cops that showed up while the bad cop was abusing this guy. Not only that, but the Arlington PD said the force was justified in this case. Did you read that? Higher-up cops said the psycho nutjob did nothing wrong. Clearly, believing only 1% of cops are bad apples is preposterous.

Let’s say 2 higher-up cops reviewed this incident, and said the cop behaved the way a cop ought to behave. What are the odds that a psycho nutjob like this is cleared of any wrongdoing? Let’s say it’s 25% of the time. (75% of such incidents lead to consequences) That would mean that 63% of cops are also psycho nutjobs (.63³ = .25). 63% of cops being bad apples isn’t a few bad apples.

Even if you wanted to say that the odds of this psycho nutjob’s behavior being approved is 1%. (That is you think 99% of cops behaving like this guy face consequences, and I’d say you’re in lala land). You’re still saying that 22% of cops are bad. One out of five isn’t just a few bad apples. (Verify this for yourself by punching this into your calculator: .22 x .22 x .22. You’ll get about 1%.)

And I’ve shown an incident in the past where 50 or so cops abused people, and such incidents happened repeatedly in that era, and are still common today in different contexts. At that point, you’d have to admit that either the vast majority are bad, or there is some psychological thing that causes decent people to behave badly in big groups or that the whole system is broken. I don’t really care what the answer is, but it’s just clear to me that we should abolish the police.

I have a new hero: Alejandro Natividad.

He was a passenger in a car where the driver was pulled over. He did nothing wrong and stood up for himself. He was arrested and later released with no charges.

At 2:35 he says, “The Lord rebuke you.” All cops and all government officials from top to bottom need to hear that!

On one hand, I might scoff at anyone who raises the specter of Americans having their guns confiscated or being moved into a FEMA concentration camp. On the other hand, gun confiscation has already taken place on a limited scale as you can see in the video below. And Japanese Americans were put into concentration camps during WWII.

A couple of points I’d like to make about the video. I know people who claim that an overwhelming majority of cops are great, freedom-loving Americans who would never in a million years confiscate anyone’s guns. On the other hand, when it comes down to it, there is no shortage of cops willing to confiscate guns. It’s not bikers who will confiscate guns, or crackheads or Mexican drug cartels or inner-city gangs.

If there is ever a gun confiscation or mass internment into concentration camps, it will be Mr. local sheriff’s deputy or police officer. George Soros, Obama, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, or Harry Reid won’t be confiscating anyone’s guns.

I would hope many cops will refuse to obey such orders or enforce unjust laws, but there is ZERO evidence that any of them are willing to disobey orders. And, they certainly aren’t building up any spine in refusing to enforce unjust laws and orders now. They seem to be doing exactly what they’re told. It seems to be a human tendency to talk big about the bold, decisive actions we’ll take on the hill worth dying on until we get there. Cops are no exception.

My second point is that when the cops ask if you have a gun, it is not in your best interest to answer the question. You have no obligation to answer any question from the police. Whether you refuse to answer, or lie is something I will leave between you and the Lord, but I can think of two examples of people who have lied to government in Scripture and ended up in the Faith Hall of Fame of Hebrews 11.

I admit that it might cause problems to refuse to answer questions from police, but how much worse could it be than telling the truth like the people in this video did? We need to all get in the habit and get the gumption up to tell cops that we don’t answer their questions.

Without this video, these cops would never have faced any serious questions about the murder they committed. But this commenter, Sheva Meucci may be on to something. He thinks they may have been trying to plant a gun on the guy. Here’s the video, and his commentary below.

1:11 When officer 1 was shot, the victims right arm was visible holding the fence at an angle that suggests a nearly impossible angle for him to left-hand-shoot the officer behind and to his left. (seriously, try it out)

Just after shooting his partner, officer 2 seems to mumble something. Perhaps it was “I didn’t mean to get you”

1:30 is the KEY

At exactly 1:30 officer 1 has just said “Where’s the gun” (fearing there never was one) pulls a secondary weapon out of his belt in the front after touching and deciding not to plant his primary weapon, then wipes it across the victim’s back and puts it on the ground (for those watching). He then picks it back up resting his weight on it barrel pointing toward the ground. The camera loses track but picks back up as the cop, with planted weapon in hand goes for his primary weapon and has to drop the planted gun to free his hand. He loosens his primary wepon but does not take it. (because the guy is obviously no threat) Then the other offficer (2) shoots the guy once.

Officer 1 then pulls out his primary weapon and shoots the victim in the back three times. He then pleads to the crowd over his murder saying “I got shot” and adjusts the position of the planted gun for the onlookers. At 2:51 he decides to call attention to the gun again by picking it up and tossing it 1 additional foot away from the dying man.

At 3:15 someone in the crowd says “He’s got another gun or what?” trying to determine why they are suffocating the dying man. At 3:16-17 officer 2 says to officer 1 “I dunno if he has a gun”

Immediately thereafter at 3:20 Officer 1 grabs his secondary weapon/plant off the ground and sticks it back in his belt as, apparently, there is some confusion about whether or not he needs a plant.

At 3:37-41 the obviously weird motions of officer 1’s body are a puposeful attempt to secretly shake loose the gun he has in his belt. (Sort of an impromptu magic trick) And it then lands on officer 2’s leg.

At 3:52 officer 1 lifts the victims left arm for cuffs and brushes his hand against the planted gun to attempt to get prints on it, even using the hand to “throw the weapon” to the side.

3:59 officer 1 has now grabbed the planted gun and moved it into a position where people on the other side of he street can see it and then asks “Does he have another one?” (desperately hoping they don’t need the plant)

4:07 Officer 2 reveals he’s not aware of the plant at this point by replying “Doesn’t really matter” intimating that they are covered for all misconduct now that they’ve found a gun and the guy is no threat even if he had another.

After displaying the second plant to everyone, officer 2 sends officer 1 away and at 4:20 yells, “That’s his fucking gun”

At 1:30 it is obvious where that weapon comes from unless it was a hover-gun.

The murderer says “Where’s the gun” reaches right for it and then pulls it out without telling his partner?

Crystal… Freaking… Clear…

Officer 2 was a violent monster using deadly force without any real danger to his life who shot his own partner, then quitely shoots the victim again with no reason to do so other than to subdue and hide his first mistake but eventually he felt he could get away with it because a gun was found.

Officer 1 may have thought the victim actually shot him, but was filled with rage at what he percieved was his attempted murder, and in his pained and blind rage became the true murderer. Then in his fear, he tried to hide his rage/fear-filled actions through planting a gun.

Officer 2 caused the whole thing and the pain and rage of officer 1 almost excuses (what he thought was) his retaliatory murder. Officer 2’s actions were just cold and evil.